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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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RIND, n.¹, adv. Also rhin(d), rynd, reind; reen(d); ring (Sc. 1887 Jam.); and dim. form reenie. Sc. forms and usages (but see etym. note below and Ruind). [rəin(d), rɪn(d), rin]

I. n. 1. A strip or slat of wood, a thin piece cut off the edge of a board, a beading (Abd. 1904 E.D.D.; I.Sc., n.Sc. (reen), em.Sc.(a) 1968); a wand, a rod. Comb. reen-barn, a barn built of slats of wood with spaces between them for ventilation.Abd. 1880 W. Robbie Glendornie ii.:
Overhead, the rafters were bare, and to the under-sides of these were nailed rinds of wood, on which, and between them and the flooring above, were usually deposited an assortment of whip “shafts”.Mry. 1883 F. Sutherland Memories 149:
Wi's rod ower his shoother — an auld crookit reen.Wgt. 1883 D. McWhirter Ploughboys' Musings 21:
In the corner of yonder reen barn.Dmf. 1917 J. L. Waugh Cute McCheyne 28:
Your rhin' should be clippit into lengths and bored ready.Abd. 1948 People's Journal (13 March):
Between 3000 and 4000 tons of “reinds” and slab wood were destroyed.Sh. 1949 J. Gray Lowrie 58:
He wis puued oot twa lang reends. . . . “Dey'll aye stengle a daek”.Rs. 1965 Scots Mag. (Nov.) 137:
To call in and collect a sheaf of reens.

2. The edge or margin of a strip of cultivated land, or of a pathway (Abd. 1960); a strip of ground used as a pathway; the edge or top of a peat bank (Abd.⁴ 1931).Abd. 1711 T. Mair Ellon Presb. Rec. (1898) 420:
The boundaries are defined by certain poles and rhinds. e.Lth. 1730 Trans. E. Lth. Antiq. Soc. X. 33:
James Meek shue 2 Riges in the rindes and two riges ends.Abd. 1759 Session Papers, Forbes v. Fullarton (15 Jan.) 20:
He observed some of Watertoun's Tenants cast some Peats in the Lip of a Rind.Sc. 1825 J. Mitchell Scotsman's Library 473:
These rigs or dales were divided from each other by narrow or broad slips of uncultivated grass land, called rinds or baulks.

¶II. adv. In strips, raggedly.Wgt. 1883 D. McWhirter Ploughboy's Musings 21:
Thy youthfu' hide is thach't but reen Wi' tawtet locks.